John Bradburne was a British missionary, lay member of the Secular Franciscan Order, and director of Mutemwa Leprosarium near the town of Mutoko. He was assassinated amid the turmoil of the civil war in Rhodesia…

Bible belonging to Evariste Kagorora, killed on 11 April 1994 in Rwanda, in the church where he had sought refuge Evariste Kagorora, a young Tutsi from Rwanda, took refuge in the Saint Famille church in…

Letter from Frére Christian de Chergé, Trappist monk of Notre Dame de l’Atlas, Algeria, who was killed by Islamic fundamentalists on 21 May 1996, together with six of his brothers. Frére Christian de Chergé was…

Bible that belonged to Floribert Bwana-Chui, a young man from the Community of Sant’Egidio in Goma, Congo, who was tortured and killed on the night of 8-9 July 2007 for not bowing to attempts at…

Cross that belonged to Sister Leonella Sgorbati, Consolata missionary nurse, killed on 17 September 2006 in Mogadishu, Somalia The small cross that belonged to Sister Leonella Sgorbati, killed in Mogadishu on 17 September 2006, was…

Relics belonging to Sister Olga Raschietti, Sister Lucia Pulici and Sister Bernadetta Poggian, of the Xaverian Missionary Sisters congregation, killed in Kamenge (Burundi) on 7 and 8 September 2014. On 7 September, Sister Lucia Pulici…